Black Friday Twin Cities

Not to break up the BCBS thread, but St Anthony Village Wine at Silver Lake Village still has 5 bottles of Bent Paddle DSDB at $25, plus almost every special TG: DDH, FS&M, etc.

 

Cool. Best to share that here: https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/twin-cities-bottle-hunt-2017.505983

 

Ray J's is still pouring 3 years of BCBS and '14 & '17 Coffee

 

BCBS is an easy skip for me after having the regular and coffee on-tap today. The coffee was once my favorite, this edition is .

 

Price tag? A little Leary after an event or two in town. The flight at Republic was the best value I saw!

 

This year's versions of Coffee is the best since 2014. The last few years have been slightly "fruity". Not the case this year, they went back to Black Cat Espresso and it's awesome.

 

For some insight on scarcity, a distributor in another state that covered a region of 650K people had 40 cases of Coffee. So if that model holds true across the country, there were about 60 cases allocated to every 1M in population. I am sure there are some variances, but thought it was interesting.

 

Brand stout is easily accessible in Rochester. A couple stores have the barleywine stashed in the managers office but you have to ask. Little ridiculous that a beer manager let one guy buy the entire case of Northwoods right after opening the store cause he was worried it wouldn’t sell.

 

For anyone that cares, the Rare that was posted for sale at Brooklyn Center was a 2010 vintage and they had 1 @ $70. Was assuming it was going to be 2015.

 

A single bottle? That's very misleading. Pretty cool it was an ancient bottle though.

 

Regular 2017 'Bourbon County Brand Stout' was still available at the front counter of Total Wine Bloomington on Monday morning. Limit two bottles per customer, and priced at $10.99 per bottle plus tax.

 

Yes. One bottle of rare, one of regal rye, couple coffee I think and a dozen or so regular.